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[athames]

Who: Belthazor, Jace Belren, maybe Resistance fighters later?
When: After reporting in to Alastair, but before Belthazor meets up with Sylar and Durden for the Barge raid.
Where: Market district
What: Wayward inmates, stabbity stab stabs, some more violence, then rescues! Fun stuff.

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[mind_sculptor]

The barge was so disorganized, and Jace knew nothing about mechanisms like those that ran the ship. He needed to find his inmate. There would be no telling what he would do running loose like this without his real memories.

His magic was cut off, distance. Jace had been able to establish a connection to the river near where the barge crashed, but unable to draw any mana from the unhealthy water. It had been nothing to do with the water, he was sure, because he couldn't seem to access any of his other abilities either.

Without magic, without his mental abilities, Jace was vulnerable. All he had was the knife. It should be more effective against his inmate than anything else he could have used. He tried to get as close as he could before making himself known. "Belthazor..."

[athames]

Years of training made it instinct to know when someone was tailing him, so when Belthazor turned around, there was a knowing smirk plastered on his face even as he fingered the long dagger at his hip. Sizing the man up, the smirk widened - this wasn't even going to be a fight.

"My reputation precedes me," he drawled. "Though you'll have to pony up something for the pleasure of my company. My time is, as you might imagine, exceedingly valuable."

[mind_sculptor]

This was a completely new situation. He had no idea how to deal with memory loss of this kind.

Perhaps a direct approach? Jace was more than prepared to deal with a fight if it came to it. The mana blade would hopefully prevent his inmate from causing too much trouble for everyone else before he regained his memories.

"Do you charge by the minute, or by the hour?" Jace asked, deflecting the request for a bribe. "A little shake up from the multi-verse and you've forgotten everything?"

[athames]

"Depends on how interesting the conversation is. And right now, the only thing I'm forgetting is why I'm not carving you up."

He withdrew the dagger from its sheath, tossing it from one hand to the other, carefully careless. Belthazor's only reaction to Jace's prompt was an arched eyebrow as he canted his head. From the way he was dressed (albeit very strangely), he had to have some goods on him that he could pawn off on Alastair while keeping the best for himself.